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  2. QTBUG-59364

Organize help contents as a tree in Qt Assistant and Qt Creator

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      Problem
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      When you open the Contents view in Qt Assistant or in the Qt Creator help mode, you get a long list of help files for Qt modules and tools. This is even worse in Qt Creator, where the documents for each installed Qt version are listed in a seemingly arbitrary order.

      Solution
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      Organize the help contents in alphabetic order in an expandable tree structure.

      Possible Structure
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      The structure should have several levels. Below is a possible structure that follows the installer structure. However, it might be useful to add "Getting Started" documentation or product-specific documentation (Qt for Device Creation, Qt for Automotive, and so on) at the top level:

      Contents
      Qt (Level 1)

      __Qt <version number> (L2)
      __Qt <module name> (L3)
      __Qt <module name> (L3)
      _...
      __Qt Tools (L2)
      __Qt Assistant (L3)
      __<version number> (L4)
      __...
      __Qt Creator (L3)
      __Qt Creator <plugin name> (L4)
      __Qt Creator <plugin name> (L4)
      __Qt Enterprise Add-Ons (L2)
      __Qt Embedded (L2)

      3rd Party Documentation (L1)

      __Documentation Set (L2)
      __Documentation Set (L2)

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